gigle semiconductor

Juan Carlos Riveiro
President & CEO

Juan Carlos co-founded Gigle in September 2005, and is an acknowledged industry expert and pioneer in the field of powerline communications. Prior to Gigle, Juan Carlos was CTO and R&D Co-director of DS2, where he managed the R&D team. Juan Carlos joined the DS2 organization in November 1998 and led the creation of DS2’s 45Mbps product generation and 200Mbps product generations. Previously Juan Carlos has held a development role at R&D Ladel and undertaken a research project at UPC Digital Communication Group. Juan Carlos is a vocal advocate of the creation and implementation of industry standards and is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Richard Irving
Non-executive director

Based in Silicon Valley, Richard co-founded Pond in 1997 and brings twenty-five years' experience in venture capital, business management, marketing and engineering in technology companies including AT&T Bell Labs, AMD, Brooktree, and Irving International. Starting as a chip designer at Bell Labs, and strategic marketing manager at AMD, Richard later managed three business units at Brooktree with full P&L responsibility both prior to and following the company's IPO. These grew from as small as $1M up to $90M. Richard has been involved in numerous IPOs, acquisitions, and private financings and serves as Director of Transitive, picoChip, Nanotech and Acco Semiconductor. Richard has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University.

Harry Nelis
Non-executive director

Harry has been involved in technology startups and large technology companies in Europe and the U.S.A. for almost 15 years. Prior to joining Accel, Harry was at Perry Capital, an $8B hedge fund, where he focused on investments in public technology companies. Prior to that, he was a member
of Goldman Sachs London-based technology investment banking team, advising leading European technology companies on corporate finance and M&A transactions. Previously, Harry spent almost a decade in Silicon Valley and was the technical founder of Palo Alto-based E-motion. Harry holds an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Stuart Paterson
Non-executive director

Stuart is a Partner at SEP, focusing on investments in communications and semiconductor technology. Recent investments include Cambridge Silicon Radio (LSE: CSR), picoChip Inc., Zinwave Inc. and Virtensys. His successes include a number of flotations on the London Stock Exchange, and successful trade exits to Cisco, Agilent and Rolls Royce. Over the last decade Stuart has led many successful “A” round start-ups and a number of late stage deals with many of the leading international venture capital firms. Stuart has a joint degree in Accounting & Computing Science, a CA from his career at Ernst & Young and has completed the Harvard Business School, Venture Capital Executive programme.

Mark Christensen
Non-executive director

Mark has served as a Director of Gigle from March 2007. From 1982 to 2005, Mark was employed at Intel Corporation in a variety of engineering, management, director and vice president positions, including Corporate Vice President and Director of Communications Sectors for
Intel Capital. In that position, Mark was responsible for managing Intel Capital's investments in mobile devices and communications infrastructure. In 2005, Mark founded Global Capital Management, LLC, a consulting company for technology startup companies. Mark holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from the University of Oregon.